12 big attractions listed on Web site

NEW YORK — Perhaps you've heard about the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a glass observation deck that will jut out from the edge of the canyon 4,000 feet over the Colorado River. The Skywalk is scheduled to open to the public later this month and promises to be one of the most interesting new places to visit this year.

But did you also know that an outdoor digital art gallery is coming to Dallas? And that a complex of nature walks and museums is opening in Las Vegas? Or that a Shakespeare festival in Washington, D.C., is putting fresh spins on the bard's timeless plays, including a real Supreme Court justice presiding over a trial of Hamlet?

A Web site called SixNewThings — sixnewthings.com — can help you keep track of these and many other new attractions. Every month, the site highlights six new things in 70 cities and regions around North America, from attractions to restaurants and the arts.

The site also offers an uber-list of what its editors deem to be the 12 "Most Intriguing New Things for 2007." The list, released in February, includes the Grand Canyon Skywalk, Las Vegas Springs Preserve, the Dallas digital gallery and the Shakespeare festival, along with a new building for Manhattan's New Museum of Contemporary Art; Colborne Lane, a restaurant in Toronto; the Rosewood Mayakoba resort in Mexico; a new David Mamet musical; Kansas City; the Creation Museum; Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park; and England's Manchester International Festival.

All 12, said Jeff Herrington, executive editor and co-publisher of the Dallas-based Web site, are "things that caught our eye, that are really interesting and intriguing to the smart, savvy, adventurous traveler."

Not all of the local monthly listings are quite as noteworthy as the Skywalk. Herrington admits that "it's sometimes a little bit of a stretch to find" six new things every 30 days in all 70 regions the Web site covers — including places like Winnipeg, Canada, and the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. But he added that "we really do go for diversity, from a really high-end posh new restaurant to something sports-related to a great but simple Korean restaurant in a strip mall getting great reviews."

The site does not get paid for listings, but it does accept advertising and recently stopped charging for reader subscriptions. Users now sign up on the home page and can go to the region that most interests them. Readers are encouraged to send in tips.